Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern ...

The discovery in Jaen did not arrive with the drama of gold or treasure, but with something far rarer: clarity of intention. Archaeologists working near Jodar uncovered a 2,500-year-old sanctuary that ...

Christmas is just days away - but it's not the only winter celebration in the calendar. Different cultures have celebrated the winter solstice since the dawn of human history. The solstice - which ...

At 10:03 a.m. Sunday morning, the sun was directly over the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5° south latitude, marking the December solstice, and the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Other ...

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The winter solstice is the moment when the Earth is tilted farthest away from the Sun. Because of this tilt, the Sun sits at its lowest point in the sky. This creates the shortest day of the year, ...

Meteorologists consider the arrival of December as the start of winter, the beginning of the coldest three months of the year. Astronomically, the season started a little after 10 a.m. on Sunday, ...